Beth is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Beth is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Beth. In the SmartGenius ranking, Beth is #3,302 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 154,315 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Beth. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
#65 - this is the highest position Beth has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Beth reached this top position was in the last century, in 1964, when 6,698 newborn girls were named Beth. But as our statistics show, Beth has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1883, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Beth is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Beth was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 39 newborns were given the name Beth, making them rank #3,386. Although the name Beth was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Beth are still there in our contemporary times.
The name Beth may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Beth is apparently especially popular in Indiana. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 466 women in Indiana is called Beth. In total, that’s 7,688 women who feel addressed when the name Beth is shouted loudly across Indiana and who ensure that their name makes it to #119 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Beth as the answer a total of 154,300 times. This places Beth at #231 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Beth as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Beth is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Beth and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Beth, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Beth
Beth
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
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T
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
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T
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Beth sounds like this:
